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PatentedJunefm, 1892.

NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. HULETT, OF EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HIRAM COULD, OF SAME PLACE.

SEED-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,369, dated June 21, 1892. Application filed February l5, 1892. Serial No. 421,570. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. HULETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Excelsior Springs, in the county of Clay and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SeedPlanters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to cornplanters wherein the grain is planted in hills Io equal distances apart and VVin regular rows without the use of check-row lines.

According to my inventionI provide one or more, preferably two, seed-boxes, inthe bottom of which works a slide operated by acamwheel normally resting on the ground and having two or more markers.

The details of my invention will be hereinafter more particularly described.

The accompanying drawings show so much zo of a grain-planter as is necessary to illustrate my invention.

In applying my invention to working machines the details of construction may of course be somewhat modified.

'Figure l is a side elevation of the machine; Fig. 2, a plan View; and Fig. 3, a detail view ofthe cam-wheel, showing its connection with the slide-operating rod.

The main frameA A may be of any approved 3o construction. It is provided at its front end, as shown in the drawings, with two seed-boxes B, which have openings at their lower ends, and guides for a slide-bar C. The slide-bar is adapted to reciprocate transversely to the line of draft and to open and close the openings through which the seed drop and are deposited in the ground at the rear end of the runners E. Springs c tend to hold the slide steady to close the openings. The carrying- 4o wheels F may support the main frame in any suitable way, and the drivers seat G may be mounted and arranged in any usual or approved manner. The side beams Il of the frame extend rearwardly from the axle, and

in the rear ends of the side beams is pivoted a frame I, in which is journaled a cam-wheel J.

The frame, as shown, is formed with arms transverse to theline of draft, which are piv` oted in the beams, and with arms rl', in which 5o the aXle of the cam-wheel is journaled. One

of the arms is prolonged rearwardly and eX- tended transversely behind the cam-wheel'to act as a scraper therefor. A chain or rope K connects the frame at 7c with a lever Lvwithin convenient reach of the driver. Bymoving the lever forwardly, as indicated by dotted lines, the cam-wheel may be lifted from the ground. i

The cam-wheel J is of a novel construction. It is a skeleton wheel made ot' two principal 6o partsviz., the sidesj andi-which are united by a common hub y2. The sides are separated to form a cam-wheelslot js, having inclined portions j4 on opposite sides of the wheel at the points indicated by the markers M. A slide-operating rod N is loosely connected to the feed-slide C at c and extends through the' slot in the cani-wheel and is pivotally connected to a clip Nf, in which the axle of the cam-wheel J is free to revolve. The organi- 7o zation is such, as will bc apparent, that when the cam-wheel revolves the slide-operating rod N will be oscillated and will imparta corresponding.reciprocation to Vthe slide C and the Acorn or seed will be delivered from the seed-boxes. It is also apparent that the corn or seed is delivered at regular intervals, and thus may be planted in hills. There is an obvious advantage in havingthe rod N extend into the slot in the cam-wheel instead of be- 8c ing operated by cams on the outside of the cam-wheel. The rod cannot be oscillated by any accident. It can only be moved when operated by the inclined portions of the slot in the wheel, and'this slot is always kept clean 85 and free from dirt by the rod.

The markers M are movable and may be adjusted in anydesired way. As the machine plants one row of seed Vthe markers indicate the hills and form guides for planting the next 9o row. After having planted one row of hills the cam -wheel should be elevated, as shown in Fig. 1, Yand the machine turned around and moved over the field in a parallel line, which may be indicated or guided by tl1e'de- 95 pressions made by the markers, as before eX-V plained. Y

Two or more machines may be operated at the same time to plant a plurality of rows in parallel lines. Y K

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, substantially as set forth, of a seed-box, a reciprocating slide, a wheel mounted in a pivoted frame and rest- IOO ing on the ground, and a. single 10d extending and connected to the axis thereof, substanlo into a earn-slot in the wheel and .connected at tially as described. its front end to the slide. In testimony whereof havehereunto sub- 2. The combination of a. seed b0x, :L reeipscribed my name. 5 roeating slide, a earn-Wheel provided with two or more markers, a pivoted frame in which I the earn-Wheel is mounted, in' scraper formed /Vitnesses:

on the pivotedframe for the cam-Wheel, and a J A. LEABO, rod extending through a slot in the cam-Wheel J. D. THOMSON.

JOHN F. HULETT. 

